Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-01-09

''He will be better in a moment
''But only for q moment. Will nothing
induce You to change your mind?'
As if in reply a sudden gust of wind
brought a volley of rain against the win.
dow.
That will" said the stranger bitterly.
THE RAMP
"a mile from here it is snow; and be-
fore we could reach the Summit with these
horses the road would be impossible"
He made n slight gesture TO himself. as
if accepting an inevitable defeat, and
turned to his companion, who was slowly
reviving under the active ministration of
the two ome The wounded man look
ed around with a weak smile. This is
one way of going off," he said family,
''but / could do this sort of thing as well
on the road"
'You can do nothing now" said his
friend. decidedly. Before we get to the
Gate the road will be impossible for our
horses"
''For any horses?" asked Kate.
''For any horses. For any man or beast,
I might say. Where we cannot get out no
one can get in" he added az if answering
her thoughts. 81 am afraid that you won't
see your brother tomorrow morning. But
I'll ~reconnOiter, "a ! can do so without
| torturing him" he said, looking anXiously
mt the helpless man; hes got about his
share Of pain, | reckon, and the first thing
is TO get him easier" 1t was the longest
speech he had made to her; it was the first
time he bad fairly looked her in the face.
His shy restleSsness had suddenly given
way to dOgged resignation, less distracted,
but scarcely more flattering TO his enter
tanners. Lifting his companion gently in
his arms, "a if he had been a child, he re-
assembled the staircase, Mrs. Scott and the
hastily summoned Molly following with
OVERLOOKING sOlieitude. As soon as they
were alone in the parlor Mrs. Hale turned
10 her sister: ''Only that our guests seemed
to be as anxious to go now as you were to
pack them off / should have been shocked
at your in~hospitality. What has come over
YOU, Kate? These are the very people you
have reprOached ne so often with not be-
ing civil enough to-
But who are they?'
"How do l know? There is your broth
er's letter."
She usually spoke of her husband as
John" This slight shifting of relation
ship and responsibility to the feminine
mind was significant. Kate was a little
frightened and remorseful.
81 only meant you don't even know
their names"
THAT wasn't necessary for giving them
q bed and bandages. Doyou suppose the good
! Samaritan ever asked the wounded Jews
name, and that the Levite did not excuse
himself because the thieves had taken the
poor mans card case? Do the directions,
In case of accident in your ambulance
rules, read: First lay the sufferer on his
back and inquire his name and family con-
nections'? Besides, you can call one Ned
and the other George if you like"
"0h, you know what | mean," said
Kate, irrelevantly. (Which is George?"
George is the wounded man." said
Mrs. Hale; not the one who talked to you
more than he did TO any one else. l sup
pose the poor man WAS frightened and read
dimiSSal in your eyes"
81 wish John were here"
II don't think we have anything to fear
in his absence from men whose only wish
is to get away from us. If it is a question
of propriety, my dear Kate surely there is
the presence of mother to prevent any
scandal-although really her own conduct
with the wounded one is not above SuS-
piciOn," she added, with that novel mis-
~chievouSness that seemed Q return of her
lost girlhood. I'VE must try to 60 the
best we can with them and for them" she
said decidedly, "and meantime I'll see if
l can't arrange Johns room for them"
N.IOhD'S rOOm2r
'Oh, mother is perfectly satisfied: in
deed, suggested it It's larger and will
hold two beds, for Ned the friend, must
attend to him at night. And, Kate, don't
you think, if yOu're not going out again,
yOu might change your costume? 1t does
very we'll while we are alone
WELL" said Kate Indignantly, ''as /
am not going into his ROOM
Pm not so sure about that, if we can't
get a regular doctor. But he is very rest
less, and wanders all over the house like a
timid and apologize spaniel"
"who?"
"Why Ned But 1 must go and look
after the patient. 1 suppose they've got
him safe in his bed again" and with anod
to her sister she tripped up stairs.
Uncomfortable and embarrassed, she
knew not why, Kate sought her mother.
But that good lady was already in atten-
dance on the patient, and Kate hurried
past that baleful center of attraction with
a feeling of Loneliness and strsngeness she
had never experienced before. Entering
her own room she went to the window
that first and last refuge of the troubled
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